Descrição
Catalog of a loan exhibition held at the Center for African Art, New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm; Hardcover.
Introduction: Africa and the Renaissance / Susan Vogel —
European perspections of black Africans in the Renaissance / Peter Mark —
1. The legacy of the navigator —
2. The Afro-Portugues Ivories —
3. An art of stillness and beauty: The Sapi-Portuguese Ivories: Saltcellers ; Pyxes ; Spoons, forks and knife handles —
4. Sources for the Sapi-Portugues Ivories —
5. Sapi workshops and artists —
6. Conclusions on the Sapi-Portuguese Ivories —
7. The Bini-Portuguese Ivories: enter movement : The guild of ivory carvers ; Oliphants ; Salts ; Spoons —
8. The Bini-Portuguese artists —
9. A conjectural digression among the bronze casters —
10. A problematic Yoruba-Portuguese Saltcellal —
11. The Afro-Portuguese Apocrypha : An enigmatic Sapi-Portuguese oliphant ; The Kongo oliphant ; A unique Kongo knife case; Kongo geometric motifs ; The mysterious fluted oliphants —
12. Conclusions on the Afro-Portuguese Ivories —
Notes — Catalogue Raisonne — Bibliography — Photograph Credits.
Ezio Bassani and William B. Fagg ; edited by Susan Vogel, assisted by Carol Thompson ; with an essay by Peter Mark.
